“Wow! Is this Mountain Tai!”
Putting her hand above her eyebrows, she tried her best to survey the area. Just as she got off the train and stepped on the platform, Luo Pianju was filled with excitement already.
As people rushed to and fro, Long Xiruo looked at the little butterfly with some reluctance. In the beginning, she brought the little butterfly with her, not for protection but to handle some matters in her place. After all, there were many things inconvenient for her to come forward directly in her current appearance.
But…
This demon regarded this matter as a vacation. Long Xiruo tried so hard on the train to tell Luo Pianju about this Mountain Tai trip. Probably this demon had forgotten about it a long time ago.
But, what the hell is going on with her breast?
Long Xiruo was in awe as she caught sight of it. Especially with the little demon’s current dress, it just seemed unfair.
“Speaking of which, I haven’t seen this dress before. When did you buy it?” Long Xiruo asked curiously.
“This dress?” Luo Pianju blinked, reached out, and pulled up the skirt. She slightly revealed the lace inside and said with a smile, “Sister Zijun gave it to me!”
“Oh.” Long Xiruo didn’t overthink it but just complained in her heart. That brat goes where she wants without saying a word.
But… How could that brat find such suitable clothes? Could it be that she had already encountered this situation before Little Butterfly left her cocoon?
This breast size…
“Master Long!”
Quietly, a cold voice appeared behind Long Xiruo and Luo Pianju. It was nothing for Long Xiruo, but Butterfly was taken aback, panicking and grasping her palm nervously.
“Don’t be nervous. It’s Ghost Infant.” Long Xiruo whispered.
“Huh? Mr. Ghost Infant?”
“This is a special ability of his race. You should treat it as an invisibility-like ability,” explained Long Xiruo briefly. She left the platform. Luo Pianju could only follow quickly, but she still tried to detect the Ghost Infant nervously.
Long Xiruo lowered her voice and said, “What’s the situation in Mountain Tai now?”
Ghost Infant’s voice sounded at this time, “It’s chaotic. Taking this as an opportunity, the daoist circle and demon beast clans broke into a fight, but there was no movement on the imperial court. They have no intention to intervene.”
Long Xiruo said calmly, “They prefer to watch both sides depleting their strength. Although the demon beast signed an agreement with the country’s founder, some people have different opinions on the initial agreement after so many years.”
As she said, she sneered, “It seems that the daoist circle can’t sit still either. Are they planning to take the opportunity to suppress the demon beast race? It seems that the suppression over the years is going to erupt adverse effects.”
Ghost Ying said slowly, “The prime minister also said that the demon beast clans also have a lot of dissatisfaction with the daoist circle. Sooner or later something will happen. This time, the emergence of Emperor Dongyue’s inheritance is just an opening for the situation.”
Long Xiruo frowned, “Gui Qianyi said on the phone that the person who got the talisman is missing?”
“Yes.” Ghost Infant said hurriedly, “That person is a Huanzhen Dao descendant. His master is Yang Taizi. He is a brat who has just entered Daoism not long ago. He has diminutive strength. In addition, he disappeared with a Long Hushan Celestial Master’s Way’s descendant.”
“Long Hushan Celestial Master’s Way?” Long Xiruo was taken aback, “Zhang Daoling’s Confucian Orthodoxy…”
—If I ascend into an immortal, the world will be peaceful!
Suddenly a sonorous voice sounded in her heart… Long Xiruo smiled slightly and whispered, “The kid back then had changed.”
“Master Long?” Ghost Infant heard a puzzled voice.
Long Xiruo shook her head and said, “It’s nothing. I just remembered an acquaintance. Take me to see Gui Qianyi. He seems anxious on the phone. He requests for my presence to explain in detail. Do you know what happened?”
“I don’t know.” Ghost Infant’s words were filled with worry, “Ever since this incident, Master Turtle has not gone out. He locks himself in. As his subordinate, I’m also quite worried. This time, the Mountain Tai undercurrent is raging. The people from the imperial court visited Xuan Yuan Palace multiple times. Master Turtle didn’t meet them with the excuse of illness.”
Amidst the conversation, Long Xiruo and Luo Pianju had already walked out of the train station together. To Luo Pianju’s surprise, she suddenly couldn’t hear Ghost Infant’s voice. She looked in front of her. A black car had been parked in front of her.
As for Ghost Infant, he had already appeared at this time. He wore a black suit and even wore a driver’s hat. He opened the car door and welcomed the two of them.
“Mr. Ghost Infant?” Luo Pianju exclaimed in surprise. Although his face looked the same, his appearance had changed too much!
Luo Pianju didn’t have many contacts with Ghost Infant, but this Elysium Bar’s gatekeeper did give Luo Pianju a deep impression.
In her memories, Ghost Infant wore clothes with many nails and even earrings on the nostrils. Back then, his hair was always dyed in multiple colors. But at this moment, Ghost Infant seemed like an intellectual, coupled with paler skin, just like a noble son.
Ghost Infant said calmly at this time, “After all, I’m going to participate in the Mountain Tai meeting, so I need to pay attention to my appearance. Is there a problem?”
“No…no.” Luo Pianju shook her head quickly.
Still the same intimidating gaze… Luo Pianju walked into the back of the car lightly and then pulled Long Xiruo over.
“Mr. Ghost Infant, where are we going now?” Luo Pianju asked curiously.
Ghost Infant turned his head from the driving seat and said, “We’re heading to the vicinity of Two-dragons Pond. Xuan Yuan Palace has its property there. Okay, please sit firmly. I’m going to start the car.”
“Oh…wow!“
Stop speeding!
…
Sitting cross-legged in the humble room, Momo began to rejuvenate his body with qi. With the medicine that the woman named Qin applied to him, his injury had healed. 30% of his meridians had recovered after several days of cultivation. He had become somewhat capable of fending for himself.
After the mysterious woman surnamed Qin left that day, Momo carried Zhan’er on his back to find the exit. Then, he found a village that was at least 60 kilometers away from the place where he fell off the cliff. He then realized why he didn’t encounter any daoist or demon beast. The woman transferred him and Zhan’er to a much safer place.
Momo quickly found a local family surnamed Wang, who appeared like a simple villager name. He made up an excuse and then took some money to pay the villager. With that, he temporarily stayed in this family’s home.
Zhan’er still showed no signs of waking up.
At this time, the master of this house suddenly knocked on the door and brought some food. This man was called Wang Dashun, an honest farmer. He had only one son in his family, who attended high school outside the village. The son would only come back during the holidays.
“Brother! My wife made some millet porridge! Since your friend can’t wake up and it’s inconvenient to eat, this shall feed him well!” Wang Dashun smiled as he opened the door and walked in.
“Thanks, Brother Wang.” Momo accepted the food gratefully.
In this challenging situation with everyone else becoming enemies, Momo appreciated the goodwill from an ordinary person a lot. It was just that the daoist circle and demon beast race would find him sooner or later. He was afraid that he would bring harm to the family.
“Brother Wang, I plan to leave tonight,” Momo said while feeding Zhan’er with the millet porridge and looking at Wang Dashun.
“So fast? You can stay for a few more days! It’s fine!” Wang Dashun quickly said, “Aren’t you hurt too? I saw blood all over your body that other day.”
“I have recovered a lot.” Momo said casually, “Besides, I can’t just let my friend stay unconscious all the time. I plan to send him to the hospital in the provincial capital.”
“That’s right.” Wang Dashun nodded and said, “Well, it’s inconvenient to go out here. You need to wait a few days before there is a minibus coming in from outside the village. Let me contact them and see if there is any other way?”
“Thank you, Brother Wang!” Momo nodded. “By the way, Brother Wang, can I borrow your phone? I have been missing for some time and haven’t reported my safety to my family.”
“Go ahead.”
Naturally, it wasn’t a high-end mobile phone. Probably a counterfeit product worthed a few hundred yuan. However, it was enough for making calls. Wang Dashun left the room wittily.
Momo thought for a while, then dialed a number. He had destroyed his phone during his escape. Otherwise, he would have exposed himself to enemies’ surveillance.
There were also many rules and regulations in the Divine Land’s daoist circle. For example, every person in the daoist circle was required to register with a dedicated government agency. A special monitoring system had to be installed on their phones. The agency would check on them at 3 to 5 days intervals.
At this time, Momo naturally didn’t plan to follow this rule and report to the people of that organization. He felt that he needed to inform his master about such a big event. He was worried. In addition, he had to explain to Yang Taizi.
It was just that when he started calling his master’s cell phone number, he stopped immediately. If third parties monitored his master’s or Senior Yang Taizi’s cell phone, his current location would be exposed just from the simple signal source.
Even if his master and Senior Yang Taizi came forward, they couldn’t stop those who went fanatic for this treasure. They were like demonic hounds in hunger. Worse still, reaching out might bring harm to the two seniors…
Momo gave a wry smile. After that, he put Wang Dashun’s phone aside and didn’t use it. He looked at Zhan’er on the bed and couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “Lucky you, you sleep so soundly.”
Momo shook his head, sighed, and took the millet porridge made by Wang Dashun’s wife. He filled a spoonful of it and then sent it to Zhan’er’s mouth, cautiously feeding Zhan’er.
“Eat. I don’t know if you still have a chance to eat again in the future. It is better to die with a full stomach than to starve to death.”
…
The street marked the border between heaven and hell.
What was interesting in this city was that regardless of whether they were rich or poor, they could live in a location halfway up the hill. If they were located in other developed cities, even the ordinary wealthy people didn’t have such an opportunity.
But obviously, this was not the case in Rio.
Simple single-story houses were adjacent to the luxurious villas of the rich.
About a few decades ago, a large number of retired soldiers in this country did not receive preferential treatment of the country after returning. Worse still, they faced the horrible problem of unemployment. They had no source of income, not even their land.
However, this country also had strange policies at the time. For example, if one were to build a house, that piece of land belonged to you.
Thus, many veterans and retired soldiers, as well as people who wandered from other places, began to build their houses in this kind of place that later belonged to the prime location. Two-story, three-story, or even one-story homes were like bamboo shoots after a rain, quickly occupying this golden area with incredible sea views.
But in the slums built in this way, there weren’t many entertainment facilities. At best, small parks or simple football fields were built by the gangs who control these major slums.
Luo Qiu discovered that the umbrella the maid was carrying would soon become unusable because another big cloud was approaching.
You Ye had the habit of arranging flowers in the club lobby. Before coming to this city, the maid had frequented a flower shop where Luo Qiu originally lived.
But after coming here, she had to find alternatives, even though they wouldn’t be staying long in Rio this time.
“This flower shop seems great.”
Of course, the flower shop wasn’t in the slums but on the other side of the street—the rich people’s turf. The flower shop was painted in white. There were many South American flower species displayed on the outside. Luo Qiu’s usual preferences couldn’t be found here.
“You pick it. I’ll take a look around.” Luo Qiu smiled. For flowers, he rarely studied them when it was not necessary.
Seeing You Ye walk up to the flower shop’s boss and ask around, Luo Qiu began to look at the varieties available here.
He curiously walked to plants with the tag ‘Walking Iris.’ After assessing the white jade-like flower and butterfly-like blue petals, he felt an urge to buy them.
“The Walking Iris has another name, Jade Butterfly.”
Boss Luo turned around.
It was a man in a dark blue casual suit, less than 30 years old. As the man spoke, he walked to the pot of plants. He smiled, looked at Luo Qiu, and suddenly asked, “Are you Chinese?”
The man also had an Asian face. He asked in Chinese’s native language.
Boss Luo smiled and nodded, “Yes, I’m traveling here for a few days. Hello, my name is Luo Qiu.”
“Traveling? This is a bad choice.” The man smiled and reached out his hand, “Hello, my name is Song Haoran. I’m glad to meet you, my compatriot.”
Compatriot naturally meant he was yellow-skinned Chinese too.